Again he measured 1,750 feet and led me through the water, which was now knee deep. Once more he measured 1,750 feet and led me through the water, which was waist deep.

“‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by water. It was fruitful and full of branches because it was well-watered.

When the man went out toward the east with a measuring line in his hand, he measured 1,750 feet, and then he led me through water, which was ankle deep.

Again he measured 1,750 feet and it was a river I could not cross, for the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be crossed.

He said to me, “These waters go out toward the eastern region and flow down into the Arabah; when they enter the Dead Sea, where the sea is stagnant, the waters become fresh.

All of their hands will hang limp; their knees will be wet with urine.

“‘Then I bathed you in water, washed the blood off you, and anointed you with fragrant oil.

And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times.

because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.

“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with anxious shaking.

He took one of the seedlings of the land, placed it in a cultivated plot; a shoot by abundant water, like a willow he planted it.

Your rowers have brought you into surging waters. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.

Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your company have sunk along with you.

It was beautiful in its loftiness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down deep to plentiful waters.

Then I will make their waters calm, and will make their streams flow like olive oil, declares the sovereign Lord.

I will sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.

Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple. I noticed that water was flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from under the right side of the temple, from south of the altar.

When they moved, I heard the sound of their wings – it was like the sound of rushing waters, or the voice of the Almighty, or the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings.

Then he said to me, “Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror

As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets.